Day Quotes
The younger people with the ache of youth were eating all the cheese.
If life and youth were not immune to the corrosive effects of time, why should love be any different?
We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.
He was the subject of a little respectful ribbing. But he was, of course, the captain, which meant he had to do lots of the ribbing himself.
I'm watching you, big boy, my eyes say, but his are closed so it's an optical monologue.
Never judge yourself so harshly that you never arise from the ashes of life.
The more mistakes, the better the story afterwards. Especially if there's a happy ending.
Life has its rhythm ad we have ours. They’re designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity. (285)
Secret to Productivity is single tasking: Focus only on one task at hand. And don't start another till that one is completely done
From Aus B. Shurahbil" He heard Allah Messenger say: "One who strives to strengthen an oppressor and knows he is an oppressor has already left Islam. Baihaqi
Every night she wrote in that ledger.
The past and future are what’s complicated. It’s the present that’s simple.
I’d accepted my judgment without question. Agreed to live a mortal life. I didn’t know my memories would come with me
His question is pretty dangerous for me to try to answer, so I don’t—it continues to hang out there like the stained underwear at a slumber party that goes unclaimed.
Your gift will unlock doors that you prayed for God to open.
I knew that the tears of adults were wetter, saltier, and much, much sadder than those of a child
Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask, 'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out.
You see, here's my theory: Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.
Shit, this woman's scary. I'm glad my manager's the short one with the wispy hair and the shaking hands. Milo knows how to get stuff done, but he's about as terrifying as a goldfish.
Stretched by an idea, we can aspire to new heights, new ways of thinking.
I was a man who thrived on solitude
I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are embarked upon a secret life of crime.
I gazed up at the stars as I waited. They twinkled down at me, like a huge handful of diamonds someone had coated in glue and thrown on the ceiling.
I was on a path, and I became determined to give it everything I had — no matter what.
This island is a hard place to survive and I fear that it has made everything resistant to the cruel hand of death.
When anxiety comes knocking on your door, don't invite it in.
The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don't have to fear anyone or anything else.
There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next
When he leaned in to kiss me, the future swirled before me, bright as sunlight on creek water.
Our response to the external conditions of our lives can be greatly altered by our perceptions of those conditions.
People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark.
The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the favor and pretend that they were writers.
He tried to recall the look of her eyes the day they first met. He closed his eyes and concentrated, but as he envisioned Kalila's car passing by, he couldn't decide if it was a memory or a dream.
The professor stared straight ahead. He felt Husam's eyes upon him. He clenched his hands together tightly, lest their shaking reveal everything.
We must take responsibility for ourselves, for who we become, for how we live each day.
Too often we look back on our lives with regret. What is done, is done. We learned lessons from those mistakes. Every day is a new beginning.
Turning into a vampire is like signing a supernatural contract and like any contract, there are clauses.And there is the fine print.
I'm a little tired of protecting people who help the ones trying to conquer them
You know better than that the only thing about you that scares me isyour absence, Alaric
No matter what it takes. Make at least part of him live, and I can find the rest of him somehow. Someday.
He'd saved her life and killed her trust. He'd thought it a fair trade, at the time.
